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Holy poo poo these rule.
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site posted:I wouldn't mind getting choice b wallpaper sized. A bit large, but somebody's got you covered.
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Mar 3, 2016 20:29
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Still little bit too small, actually. 2560x1440 users, unite! 
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Mar 3, 2016 20:31
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There's no poll option to make the sleeve use A and B as its two sides, and ditch that other design entirely? Of the two choices here, I think A is classier but I see the appeal of B.
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Mar 3, 2016 20:35
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Shadow Hog posted:As a GAF buddy of mine put it (wrt cover B): That's immediately what I thought too. Why isn't Option B the front cover? It's a lot more fitting to their presentation of the game so far.
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Mar 3, 2016 20:38
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KozmoNaut posted:Still little bit too small, actually. Here, try this.
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Mar 3, 2016 20:39
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Yeah protip, you can replace the :large at the end of a Twitter image link with :orig to get the largest possible version of it
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Mar 3, 2016 20:40
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Awesome! Linguica posted:Yeah protip, you can replace the :large at the end of a Twitter image link with :orig to get the largest possible version of it I did not know this, but now I do 
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Mar 3, 2016 20:43
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I don't know how they could design both of those alternate covers while still designing the actual cover. The first one should be the game's cover while the second one should be the reverse one.
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Mar 3, 2016 20:53
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Mar 3, 2016 21:00
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BattleMaster posted:I don't know how they could design both of those alternate covers while still designing the actual cover. The first one should be the game's cover while the second one should be the reverse one. You underestimate the true power of the marketing department
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Mar 3, 2016 21:04
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Why do we care about boxes again? The last PC game I got in a box was like Left 4 Dead 2 and that was only because it was cheaper than getting it on Steam normally.
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Mar 3, 2016 21:06
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Elliotw2 posted:Why do we care about boxes again? The last PC game I got in a box was like Left 4 Dead 2 and that was only because it was cheaper than getting it on Steam normally. I don't even know why because when I get it it will be on Steam, but drat are those two covers (and the screaming Revenant) better than Doomguy standing there.
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Mar 3, 2016 21:07
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Honestly, I wish it were worthwhile buying Doom PC in a box. Stupid "this is just a glorified Steam key" trend gaming has these days... If I wanted the game on Steam, I could just do it through Steam - and for much cheaper, most likely! It'd be nice if the game would still run without it, even if you'd have to go through the hassle of patching manually like the old days.
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Mar 3, 2016 21:12
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Elliotw2 posted:Why do we care about boxes again? The last PC game I got in a box was like Left 4 Dead 2 and that was only because it was cheaper than getting it on Steam normally. Cause some of us are going to be buying the console versions
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Mar 3, 2016 21:31
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drrockso20 posted:Cause some of us are going to be buying the console versions ?????
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Mar 3, 2016 21:35
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RyokoTK posted:That's immediately what I thought too. Why isn't Option B the front cover? It's a lot more fitting to their presentation of the game so far. Could be some suit at the publisher mandating it for some dumb focus grouped reason while giving the devs freedom on the non-retail-facing side
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Mar 3, 2016 21:43
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Cat Mattress posted:There's no poll option to make the sleeve use A and B as its two sides, and ditch that other design entirely? Yeah I tweeted at their poll that they should just use A and B and ditch the other design entirely. They're being made fun of for it on most major gaming websites. Probably some executive at Bethesda who designed it who is gonna be butt hurt over it and won't let them change  victrix posted:You underestimate the true power of the marketing department Yeah game publisher marketing teams are hilariously out of touch. See: Halo 5's publishing team flat-out fabricating an entire alternative storyline. Shadow Hog posted:Honestly, I wish it were worthwhile buying Doom PC in a box. Stupid "this is just a glorified Steam key" trend gaming has these days... If I wanted the game on Steam, I could just do it through Steam - and for much cheaper, most likely! It'd be nice if the game would still run without it, even if you'd have to go through the hassle of patching manually like the old days. I agree, but  its DRM. So they won't let you without it.CD-Keys were replaced by Steam-keys. Too easy to crack cd-keys, or share them for single player games. Sucks though, no doubt. I hate drm. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 21:50
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I don't buy console games digitally unless there's literally no alternative (or if it's free on PS+ I guess). With PC games, there literally is no alternative, because everything worth a drat is locked to Steam even if you buy it from a brick and mortar store.
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Mar 3, 2016 21:52
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I like to buy some pc games the old way because they look nice on my shelf, like collectors editions of some games etc... other than that, buying digital copies are the best bet otherwise. On consoles there's a good 2nd hand market if you buy something and you end not liking it or will play once then never touch it again. Since I bought my 360 in 2008 I've done some good tradings with both stores and people and you can get insanelly good deals from people that barely touched their games/consoles.
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Mar 3, 2016 22:02
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Well for one thing the internet at my house is kinda iffy, so I'd rather go with physical over having to do a gigantic download, also a PS4's hard drive fills up surprisingly fast, so I'd prefer to keep it physical for this sort of thing
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Mar 3, 2016 22:13
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That latter point is kind of moot, since physical games install to the PS4's hard drive too, nowadays. Though it's easy enough to delete and reinstall as needed when you have the discs on-hand, at least?
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Mar 3, 2016 22:15
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drrockso20 posted:Well for one thing the internet at my house is kinda iffy, so I'd rather go with physical over having to do a gigantic download, also a PS4's hard drive fills up surprisingly fast, so I'd prefer to keep it physical for this sort of thing Yeah but its stupid easy to put a giant HDD in your ps4.
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Mar 3, 2016 22:30
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Everything I get is digital nowadays because it's more convenient. Boxes just take up room anyway.
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Mar 3, 2016 22:31
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Both covers kick rear end in their own different ways. I had trouble deciding but I went with B because I like B-side cover art to be, well, covered in art.
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Mar 3, 2016 22:45
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Hold on to your armchair, but some people like owning physical of copies of games if they can at all choose to do so.
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Mar 3, 2016 23:12
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I don't have any particular attachment to physical media, but I'm young and have decent enough internet so the only thing that I actually buy discs for at this point is the Wii U. The only real benefit you're even getting these days is a generic looking box and maybe the ability to only download half of the game instead of all of it.
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Mar 3, 2016 23:55
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah game publisher marketing teams are hilariously out of touch. Haha, how did this work?
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Mar 4, 2016 00:15
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Speaking of marketing. There's some of those Dead Island torsos on Ebay. Own a piece of the controversy today!
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Mar 4, 2016 01:20
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khwarezm posted:Haha, how did this work? I never bothered to play Halo 5 because gently caress the lack of local split-screen for campaign, but the entire marketing for it was about a confrontation between Locke and a rogue Master Chief, versus in the actual game where they just kind of ran into each other, said hello, and spent most of the game alternating between helping each other or ignoring each other entirely. There was zero conflict or antagonism between either of them.
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Mar 4, 2016 01:26
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I kinda like physical copies, I was a little disappointed that Wolfenstein: The Old Blood didn't have a physical PC release in the US because it would have looked nice with all my other Wolfenstein games. Also because it took loving forever to download and I don't have an awful internet connection. Downloading only half of a game is pretty nice when the game is 50 gigs. In general I can't help but feel games are getting really large, too large even, for honestly little benefit.
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Mar 4, 2016 01:39
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catlord posted:I kinda like physical copies, I was a little disappointed that Wolfenstein: The Old Blood didn't have a physical PC release in the US because it would have looked nice with all my other Wolfenstein games. Also because it took loving forever to download and I don't have an awful internet connection. Downloading only half of a game is pretty nice when the game is 50 gigs. In general I can't help but feel games are getting really large, too large even, for honestly little benefit. Didn't buy it, though, because, well, it's just a Steam key.
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Mar 4, 2016 02:14
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Johnny Law posted:Yah. Checking my listed of backed games-things (that had a successful campaign) it looks like: My Kickstarter history is pretty good, but then, I consider DFA to be successful because I went into it with the expectation that watching the videos would be interesting (it was) in addition to maybe getting a cool game eventually (very eventually, but it's Double Fine, that wasn't unexpected.) BattleMaster posted:I don't know how they could design both of those alternate covers while still designing the actual cover. The first one should be the game's cover while the second one should be the reverse one. And they should do a special edition where the black part is done in vantablack. Now THAT is a special edition I'd actually consider. Keiya fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Mar 4, 2016 03:00
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Shadow Hog posted:Pretty sure it did. Saw it at Best Buy several times over. In the US? I never saw it, and when I asked about it they said there wouldn't be a physical PC release in the US. Oh well, a bit late now anyway. Anyway, I saw an interesting looking Hexen mod on the ZDoom forums called a Morte and tried it out. Don't make my mistake. The maps are blocky, overly large but not in an interesting way, more like "hey, here's a room that's three times bigger than it needs to be," the first area, the Mausoleum, has these doors that open annoyingly slowly, and the new enemies are annoyingly tough. Oh, and there's this warning: a Morte dev posted:One set of sprites in particular has a very adult death animation, I'm aware of this and its a left over from the original sprite sheet. I will consider removing this or blurring it out in the final version. While this specific death sequence could be considered "realistic" in Berlin during the Russian invasion, I'm undecided as to whether its comical or in poor taste. I'm sure there are people out there who will find it offensive and I would prefer not to offend people over any "historical accuracy" or "humor". Curious and pissed at how awful it was to play, I god moded and no clipped my way around until I found them. The sprites in question are naked women who apparently wander the streets of war-torn Berlin and obviously came from some porn game or something, especially obviously when their death animation has their legs spread. It's not comical, especially not when put into context of the last days of WW2. All-in-all, a Morte is has bad levels, bad enemies and is kinda gross for some weird reason and I don't recommend it.
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Mar 4, 2016 08:55
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I'll get the boxed copy of Doom4 because it'll be £10 cheaper than Steam
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Mar 4, 2016 11:22
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Szymanski posted:I'll get the boxed copy of Doom4 because it'll be £10 cheaper than Steam This poo poo just blows my goddamned mind. 
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Mar 4, 2016 13:31
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Thyrork posted:This poo poo just blows my goddamned mind. Blows my mind too. I don't know why a physical box that's had to be produced, packaged and sent across oceans (all the while paying taxes to every country it's gone through) to a shop that also needs to make its own profit is still sold for cheaper than a digital distribution platform. It really needs to be the other way around.
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Mar 4, 2016 13:41
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Option A would be good for a Special Edition of the game. But B is what it should have been all along. Punching a hole through an Imp using its carcass as a shield while blowing a pinky demon's cranium 3/4 of the way off. I have irrational hope that one of those stylish finishers will have you grab an enemy and you just punch it in the stomach with the Super Shotgun. When is the beta supposed to happen again? I need my fix.
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Mar 4, 2016 14:33
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Option B on those alternate Doom covers just kind of strikes me as trying way too hard to directly imitate the original Doom artwork, as opposed to doing something new with the same attitude and style. Like a cover song, as opposed to a new track by (a different line-up of  ) the same band.Think Doom 2's title screen/cover artwork. Different perspective, subject matter, artist... but it still unmistakably has the same tone and feel linking it to the same universe as the original.
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The thing about it though, it's not just a direct imitation. Yeah it's very clearly supposed to be the same general composition, but the difference between the original and that one is that in the original, it looks like a last stand, he's defensively fighting off a horde, but in the new one it gives me the impression that he's there to gently caress some demons up because he's picking up the one by the neck. It's more offensive. It matches the feel of how the game looks so far, which is that it's like the Doom of old we promise please believe us, but far more overtly violent, where Doomguy is some kind of berserk ultra violent psychopath.
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